I met with my psychologist again today. Our last session was last Friday, but since our schedules were so packed, we had to meet earlier this week.
I don’t know if it’s the short time in between our last session and this one, but I’ve been finding that I don’t have much to talk about anymore with her. I’m getting along better with my parents, and I’ve worked out for myself a lot of what I’ve been feeling. As a result, I’ve been thinking for a while about ending my sessions.
The therapy has been helpful: it helped me be more aware of unproductive ways of thinking, helped me express my suppressed feelings of anger (along with guilt at being angry), and most of all helped me make sense of my feelings and frustrations in terms of my personality and life experiences. (There are pages and pages of backstory that I won’t go into here.)
But today I was really struggling to find things to talk about. Not that I’m completely happy with my life, but I feel like I can handle it from here, and everything I tried to bring up seemed so insignificant it was barely worth mentioning.
So I told her that I’d like to wrap up our therapy in the next session or two — perhaps spend the last session summarizing what I’ve learned and how I’ve changed. And thinking about how I can use this experience to become a better doctor.
May 23, 2007 at 12:58 pm
HI - glad things are getter better for you and wanted to thank you for putting a link to my site since someone used it today! I hope you will continue to listen to the show and hope you leave comments on the ones you like!
May 25, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Thanks for the note! It might have been me who clicked the link to your site when I was on a different computer.
But I love your shows — especially the ones with you and Joe. I would encourage everyone to check them out.
August 19, 2008 at 2:38 am
Hi, it’s great to hear that someone had a positive experience of their therapy and was able to end it at the right time and in the right way for them. I hope everything works out for you!